I lived in Boca Raton for about 3 years. It was a wonderful experience. I lived just off the corner of A1A and Palmetto Parkway about 2 blocks from the beach. The beaches are fantastic, nice cool water, with lots of living creatures to watch and savor and enjoy.

South Florida in general is a beautiful area and my family and I thoroughly enjoyed living there for a couple years, maybe you could call us 'snow birds' on the extended plan.

We took 2 trips to Sea World in Orlando and 1 trip to Disney World. We stayed at the Ron Jovi in Orlando, basically it was a condo/hotel. It had its own little water park, and we took ourselves, my wife's parents and my wife's sister's family. Three families all staying in three connected condos and it worked out better than we could expect.

The kids (at that time all around the age of 3-6) had a great time swimming during the day, and we'd take excursion to the amusement parks every other day.

I'd definitely recommend Ron Jovi and Sea World especially. Disney World was great for the little kids, but its aging and there are lots of other amusement parks for the older kids. I can't wait to try out the Discovery park and maybe get a chance to swim with the dolphins!

Sometime I'll have to tell you about the trip my grandparents took. They spent the winter in their RV. We met them and went to SeaWorld. It was the highlight of their trip getting to take their great grand son to Sea World. (He referred to their RV as the Gym Bus, because his daycare had a converted school bus that drove in and taught gymnastics to the toddlers once a week.)
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